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Artist Statement

My practice explores the contradiction between humanity’s desire to preserve its own cultural achievements and its failure to protect the natural world that sustains it. I am interested in the reverence given to art, architecture and religious spaces, while nature is often overlooked, damaged or treated as disposable. Through this body of work, I question why built structures are protected as historical and artistic achievements, while the complex beauty of nature, formed over millions of years, is ignored.

A central concern in my work is the idea that humans and nature are not separate. I present this relationship as symbiotic: humans depend on nature physically, emotionally and spiritually, yet often behave as though they exist outside it. Through ceramics, plaster, embossing and pyrography, I investigate fragility, pressure, traces, damage and permanence. Repeated surfaces, organic forms and architectural references create a dialogue between natural and man-made value. Ultimately, my work argues that nature should not be seen as separate from culture, but as the foundation of human existence, creativity and preservation.

Influenced by Donna Haraway’s ideas of entanglement and responsibility, and by Andy Goldsworthy’s sensitivity to natural materials, my work reflects on interdependence, consequence and the need to remain with environmental damage rather than distancing ourselves from it.